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Roadside bomb kills two US soldiers in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Thursday (Reuters) Two U.S. soldiers were killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Wednesday night, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The bomb exploded at 9:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) as the soldiers were passing by in their vehicles, the 1st Armored Division said. The casualties were evacuated to a combat support hospital for treatment where two soldiers later died. A total of 372 American soldiers have been killed in combat since U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein last March. Meanwhile an explosion on Thursday blew a small hole in a road and smashed windows in a residential area of Samawa in southern Iraq near where Japanese troops are stationed, but there were no reports of injuries, police said. "This explosion was caused by a rocket-propelled bomb launched from the vicinity of the river," Iraqi police officer Ahmad Sahd told Reuters. "It's the first such explosion here in Samawa." The explosion left a hole about 20 cm (eight inches) in diameter, with a cylindrical metal object stuck in it. A Japanese military spokesman in Tokyo said he had no reports of any injuries to army personnel or damage to equipment. He said he had no further details about the incident. There is much concern in Japan about the safety of Japanese military personnel who are being sent to help rebuild Iraq in Japan's riskiest military mission since World War Two. Some Japanese believe the dispatch violates Japan's pacifist constitution and that soldiers should not have been sent. The government chose Samawa as the base for Japanese troops because it was considered to be relatively safe. |
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